And I want to hang onto that income, buddy.'' If I turned him down I'd blow it sky high. Only reason I let Hal blow me is because I got a good thing there. He's always good for a touch when I'm broke. ''I don't like to be blowed ',' the novel's hero Private Robert E Lee Prewitt tells Maggio in a section cut from the novel. The original manuscript of From Here to Eternity went into 'great detail' about the kinds of sexual favours soldiers like Private Angelo Maggio, played in the film by Frank Sinatra, would provide to rich gay men for money, Kaylie Jones revealed in an article written for US news website the Daily Beast.
